30 years: Capital markets & covered bonds
The covered bond market is developing in exciting new ways. In this video of the series, Richard takes a look at the market as it stands today, and discusses how covered bonds can be fixed rate, euro denominated and used to fund mortgages.
The covered bond market is developing in exciting new ways. In this video of the series, Richard takes a look at the market as it stands today, and discusses how covered bonds can be fixed rate, euro denominated and used to fund mortgages.
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The distribution of covered bonds outstanding is well balanced between several large countries with none having more than 20% of the total. German covered bonds represent 14%, and the market also consists of 24 smaller countries accounting for the remainder.
Key learning objectives:
Identify where covered bonds come from, and how the market has performed over the last two decades.
Explain the CBM features (types), and what they fund
Outline where the issuers come from, and how many
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Overall, the market shrank from 2012 to 2017 before resuming its growth path in 2018. In the period from 2004-2012, the covered bond market grew by 1.3 trillion euros. The reason is because housing markets grew rapidly in many countries. Spain alone contributed over 300bn of total market growth along with other established countries such as France, Switzerland, Sweden and Denmark contributing a further 700bn Euros.
However, it has shrunk since 2012 due to: banks in general are borrowing far less as their balance sheets shrink and covered bonds have been squeezed by two other sources of wholesale funding.
According to an estimate from the Covered Bond Council, there are 325 active covered bond issuers in the world – 78 active covered bond issuers are from Germany, 27 from Austria and at one point in Spain, 68 issuers.
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